“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
--Audre Lorde
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“If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.”
--Audre Lorde
I am learning to weave in a class taught by Linda of the Yarn Tree every Saturday until June. We're using little rigid heddle looms and learning all kinds of hand manipulation techniques. This week the Leno Weave really perplexed me. The whole process has been really fascinating. Kind of similar to the way I felt when I learned to use a letterpress and it totally warped my conception of type and computers.
It has also made me really appreciate the portability and comfort of knitting and crocheting on a whole new level. Weaving feels more like a legacy of techniques when you are doing it; like history. Whereas knitting and crocheting seems very familiar; something that modern moms and grandmas do in their homes, on their couches.
Being librarianly, learning this newest skill makes me want a list. An extra (and separate) resume like Dwight Schrutte, perhaps; but instead of martial arts, I'd make mine about arts and crafts.
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*Or maybe that should be Animals being (Moby) Dicks?... Now somebody's gotta make a GIF...
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, through many there be who have tried it."*
(you couldn't tell our tale on a flea either--working on chapter XVIII)
Official reaching-the-limits day. Read things, can't remember what.
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